Vodacom eSIM works on iPhone – But do not use it
Vodacom has warned its customers against activating embedded SIM (eSIM) functionality on smartphones using its network.
The feature allows users to link a mobile phone number from their carrier to...
Netflix adds Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa to its board
Netflix says it has appointed Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire Strive Masiyiwa to its board.
According to financial news publication Quartz Africa, Masiyiwa is the founder of Econet Group, which has operations and...
Here is why returning clothes in the aftermath of the unrest can be tricky
Due to the unrest and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng‚ several stores in both provinces are not exchanging items for the “right size” or issuing refunds without an original...
Banks face R1.5bn bill for ATMs and branches attacked by looters
A destroyed Nedbank ATM at Diepkloof Mall in Soweto. The Banking Association SA said more than 1,400 ATMs and 269 bank branches were vandalised or destroyed in the unrest...
SARS launches new eFiling browser to solve Flash problems
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has launched a new eFiling browser in response to users complaining that they were having issues with Flash forms not loading on the eFiling website.
Microsoft,...
Liberty tops up pandemic reserve amid Covid-19 death claims
The third wave of the coronavirus has necessitated a top-up of insurance giant Liberty Holding's pandemic reserve, which it set up last year to provide for the expected impact...
Trump threatens to not sign Covid-19 bill, wants bigger stimulus cheques
President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to not sign an $892 billion coronavirus relief bill that includes desperately needed money for individual Americans, saying it should be amended to...
That lockdown baking frenzy pushed out trouble for SA’s egg industry to 2021
By early 2020 South Africa's national poultry flock had recovered to the kind of level it had been before highly pathogenic avian influenza saw an estimated 4.7 million laying hens...
Reserve saves Sanlam’s bacon
When Sanlam reported its 2019 financial results a year ago it was one of the last of the old-style physical results presentations - and already the shadow of the...
New Cape Winelands Airport plans revealed
South African billionaire Rob Hersov announced he is planning to convert the former Fisantekraal Airport into the “Lanseria Airport of Cape Town”.
Hersov and business partner Nick Ferguson bought the Fisantekraal Airport...














